Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was a dramatisation of a science fiction short story. Some were written directly for the series, but most were adaptations of already published stories. The first three years were exclusively science fiction, but that genre was abandoned in the final year in favour of horror/fantasy stories. A number of episodes were wiped during the early 1970s, as was standard procedure at the time. A large number of episodes are still missing but some do turn up from time to time; for instance, Level Seven from series two, originally broadcast on 27 October 1966 was returned to the BBC from the archives of a European broadcaster in January 2006.
No place like earth
The counterfeit man
Stranger in the family
The dead past
Time in advance
Come buttercup, come daisy, come... ?
Sucker bait
The fox and the forest
Andover and the android
Some lapse of time
Thirteen to centaurus
The midas plague
The machine stops
Frankenstein mark ii
Lambda i
Level seven
Second childhood
The world in silence
The eye
Tunnel under the world
The fastest draw
Too many cooks
Walk's end
Satisfaction guaranteed
The prophet
Immortality, inc.
Liar!
The last lonely man
Beach head
Something in the cellar
Random quest
The naked sun
The little black bag
1 + 1 = 1.5
The fosters
Target generation
The yellow pill
Get off my cloud
Taste of evil
To lay a ghost
This body is mine
Deathday
The sons and daughters of tomorrow
Welcome home
The last witness
The man in my head
The chopper
The uninvited
The shattered eye
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